SUSTO Announce ‘Rogue Acoustic’ Live Album Recording at The Royal American

SUSTO has just announced a solo acoustic show at The Royal American on Friday, February 7th, joined by with Mel Washington and Fleur Geurl (formerly Tom Angst). The performance will be recorded and later released as a live album titled Rogue Acoustic. Justin Osborne will perform songs off all three SUSTO albums: SUSTO, & I’m Fine Today, and Ever Since I Lost My Mind. Justin will also debut “several new songs” at this show.

There are few better venues, if any, for a SUSTO show than The Royal American. When SUSTO was just getting started, Justin worked in the kitchen there, and the band has played there consistently over the years. Even after breaking out of the Charleston music scene and finding a national audience, SUSTO still returns to Royal. When they play there nowadays, it’s always packed with familiar faces, and it feels like a homecoming reunion party. This time the setting will be more intimate, and Justin will most certainly have some stories to tell.

“When I started touring as SUSTO, it was primarily as a solo artist, just me and my guitar,” Justin explains. “There was something about the connection I felt with the audience during these shows; it’s different when it’s just you and them. A dialogue starts to develop, and the whole experience takes on the feeling of a good, extensive conversation. To me that’s always been a very special sort of performance, and my goal with Rogue Acoustic is to return to that and capture this type of connection in the best way possible.”

The connection that Justin is hoping for a return to can be heard best on SUSTO’s 2015 release Live From The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, which was recorded at the downtown Charleston house where SUSTO was formed. In 2017 SUSTO released a stripped-down album of & I’m Fine Today songs called SUSTO Stories, which has a similar vibe to that 2015 live album. Rogue Acostic will probably fit the vibe of those two albums, but with a few more years of experience behind it.

Tickets to the Rogue Acoustic live album recording are $10 and go on sale this Friday. Ticket link here.

See SUSTO’s full band tour dates for the first part of 2020 below.

1/16-1/18 – Todos Santos, Mexico
2/19 – Indianapolis, IN
2/20 – Chicago, IL
2/21 – Des Moines, IA
2/22 – St. Paul, MN
2/23 – Maquoketa, IA
2/24 – Omaha, NE
2/27 Denver, CO
2/28 – Denver, CO
3/3 – Kansas City, MO
3/4 – Tulsa, OK
3/5 – Dallas, TX
3/6 – Houston, TX
3/7 – New Orleans, LA
3/26 – Asheville, NC
3/27 – Birmingham, AL
3/28 – Atlanta, GA
4/10 – Charlotte, NC
4/11 – Savannah, GA
4/25 – Columbia, SC